Investigating the collision energy dependence of η/s in the beam energy scan at the BNL Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider using Bayesian statistics

We determine the probability distributions of the shear viscosity over the entropy density ratio η/s in the quark-gluon plasma formed in Au + Au collisions at sNN=19.6,39, and 62.4GeV, using Bayesian inference and Gaussian process emulators for a model-to-data statistical analysis that probes the full input parameter space of a transport + viscous hydrodynamics hybrid model. We find the most likely value of η/s to be larger at smaller sNN, although the uncertainties still allow for a constant value between 0.10 and 0.15 for the investigated collision energy range.

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Author Steffen A. Bass Physics